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HYGIENIG SEAT FOR BATHS. No. 454,510. v Patented June 23,1891.

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MORIZ ALTER, OF VIENNA, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.

HYGIENIC SEAT FOR BATHS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 454,510, dated June 23, 1891.

Application filed December 22, 1890. Serial No. 375,538. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it nutty concern.-

Be it known that I,MORIZ ALTER, a subject of the Emperor of Austria, residing at Vienna, in the Province of Lower Austria, in the Empire of Austria-Hungary, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hygienic Seats for Baths; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The invention relates to seats for hip or sitz baths, and has for its object a seat con structed so as to admit the free flow of the bath to the parts to be bathed.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is a top view, Fig. 2 an under side view, and Fig. 3 a transverse section, of a seat for hip or sitz baths embodying my improvements.

The seat a is shown in the drawings as of elliptical form,though it may have an y other desired form, so as to form, when placed in the tub, a false bottom, so to speak, said seat havingits upper face concaved or hollowed out, as shown, so as to cause a flow of water toward said aperture and to provide a greater or seat, which may be constructed of any suitable material-as, for instance, of vulcanized rubber-when immersed in the liquid will admit of a free circulation to and from the ce11- tral opening, so that but a comparatively small surface of the body in contact with the seat is not reached by the said liquid.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As an article of manufacture, a seat for sitz baths having its upper face concaved or hollowed out and provided with a central aperture b, and with channels 01 and d formed in both seat-faces and radiating from said central aperture, for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I aifix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MORIZ ALTER.

Witnesses:

JOHN H. FORsTER, W. B. MURPHY. 

